Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. pope, descends from Creole and free people of color in Louisiana, highlighting complex issues to ...

"He is an American, but he's an American who has a really international experience," said an assistant professor at St. Louis University.

The genealogical findings underline the significance of Pope Leo XIV being not only the first pope from the United States, but also being the first with documented ancestral ties to Louisiana’s ...

Catholics in Pittsburgh joined together in a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Patrick Cathedral to rejoice in the election of their new leader, Pope Leo XIV.

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the ...

Though family trees show that the author is related to the new pope, there are some relatives he's less proud to have.

Before he became Pope Leo XIV, he signed a proclamation honoring two local parishioners. Now, decades later, their daughter ...

Police in Britain early Tuesday arrested a 21-year-old man accused of setting fires to three north London residences this ...

The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the ...

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